Sex and the origins of death - William R Clark

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Title
Sex and the origins of death
Author
William R Clark
format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
UK Publication Date
19970201

Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a paramecium (a slightly more advanced single-cell organism), under the same ideal conditions, would stop dividing after about 200 generations--and die. Death, for paramecia and their offspring, is inevitable. Unless they have sex. If at any point during that 200 or so generations, two of the progeny of our paramecium have sex, their clock will be reset to zero. They and their progeny are granted another 200 generations. Those who fail to have sex eventually die. Immortality for bacteria is automatic; for all other living beings--including humans--immortality depends on having sex. But why is this so? Why must death be inevitable? And what is the connection between death and sexual reproduction? In Sex and the Origins of Death , William R. Clark looks at life and death at the level of the cell, as he addresses such profound questions as why we age, why death exists, and why death and sex go hand in hand.;This book is intended for general public with interest in science, health care professionals and students, gerontologists, thanatologists.

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Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Cell death.|Death (Biology)|Apoptosis.|Sex (Biology)
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
190

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